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5 days ago · Austria - Burgundian, Spanish, Marriages: Maximilian I, the son of the emperor Frederick III, was married to the Burgundian heiress, Mary, at Ghent in 1477. By that tie to Burgundy, the Habsburgs became involved in long struggles with France. After Mary’s death (1482), Maximilian, moreover, met with increasing difficulties in the Burgundian countries themselves. Meanwhile, another crisis had ...
5 days ago · One of the favorite devotions of Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has been said to be, Our Lady, Undoer of Knots (also referred to as Our Lady, Untier of Knots), whose feast day is observed Sept. 28. The devotion begins with a German nobleman of Augsburg, Germany, in 1612. Wolfgang Langenmantel and his wife Sophie Imoff were on the verge of divorce.
4 days ago · First, there’s her closet full of tunics! Classical artists like Botticelli, Raphael and DaVinci frequently depict Mary wearing a red tunic topped by a blue mantle. The Flemish High Renaissance painter Jan Gossaert uses the red/blue scheme in some works, but also envisions her in blue over blue, with a white veil.
6 days ago · On Tuesday, Mary sent her tailor Richard Tisdale to Philip with a choice of cloaks to wear for the wedding. They met again in the great hall of Wolvesey Castle. The room was called "Poncia", according to Muñoz. The name may derive from John of Pontoise, a Bishop of Winchester. Mary's gentlewomen wore purple velvet.
3 days ago · Philip I of Castile. Philip the Handsome [b] (22 June/July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg King of Castile (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506. The son of Maximilian of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor as ...
4 days ago · His life offers a unique testimony of human strength in the times of the greatest cataclysm in the history of mankind. On Jan. 8, 1894, in a humble family, Father Maximilian was born as Rajmund Maria Kolbe in Zduńska Wola, Poland. He was a child of faith early in life. In 1906 young Kolbe had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
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2 days ago · The Roman Rite liturgical books, including the Roman Missal and the Liturgy of the Hours, included offices venerating Mary's immaculate conception on the feast of the Immaculate Conception. An example is the antiphon that begins: " Tota pulchra es, Maria, et macula originalis non est in te " ("You are all beautiful, Mary, and the original stain ...
